With GM workers on strike, Flint, Michigan, is steeling itself for any economic impact.
have been surrounding the company’s massive complex in Flint for days, marching and toting signs and U.S. flags at entrances.James Schneider, who operates a laser-guided forklift truck at the GM plant, participated in a 54-day strike at a Flint plant in 1998 that forced a companywide shutdown. “Our motto then was: ‘One day longer.’ And that’s what we’re going to be. We’re going to hold out one day longer,” said Schneider, 43.
She said she worries about the workers’ livelihoods, as well as a tentative economic recovery that’s included the arrival of an auto supplier plant on part of the site that once held GM’s massive Buick City assembly center. The city is also hoping for another factory on a piece of the 390-acre plot on the city’s north side.
Still, it’s a far cry from the manufacturing heyday of the 1950s and ’60s, when GM boasted a workforce in Flint of upwards of 85,000. In later decades, jobs moved south or overseas, or just dried up.
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